The Wake Cycle

By Celiel Dreadmyre

When the crew of the long-haul ship Traveler wakes from cryo, the routine is already broken.

There is no calm wake announcement. No reliable mission context. No trustworthy timeline. One crewman remains sealed alive inside his pod-and the same man is found dead elsewhere on the ship.

As systems drift, memories fail, and suspicion hardens into survival logic, maintenance technician Mike Thompson is forced to read the ship the only way he knows how: through bad sounds, wrong timing, corrupted diagnostics, and the small mechanical lies that warn of larger disasters. But every answer aboard Traveler seems to generate a worse question. The ship is not only malfunctioning. It is repeating, adapting, and teaching the crew how to misunderstand it.

The Wake Cycle is a claustrophobic science-fiction horror novel about cryo sleep, fractured memory, and closed-system paranoia. Built around looping wake variations and procedural dread, it delivers a tense, atmospheric experience for readers who want deep-space suspense with psychological pressure.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GYPB483S
• ISBN13: 9798259008663
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 329 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"